Month: November 2010

Jump to: Top Links | .NET / Visual Studio | Web Development | Design / Methodology / Testing | Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone | Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos | Community / Events | Database | SharePoint | Miscellaneous | More Link Collections | The Geek Shelf

Top Links

• Exploring resources, a resource programming model, and code-based configuration. (Glenn Block)
• Windows Phone 7 Development Best Practices Wiki (Justin Angel)
• A less abrupt progress bar for Windows Phone developers (Jeff Wilcox)
• Jounce Part 7: Validation and Save/Confirm/Cancel Operations (Jeremy Likness)
• Why was I decrying the evils of obfuscation earlier this year? Getting it now ?? Remember I am just a “designer” right ? ? (Don Burnett)

.NET / Visual Studio

• F# in MonoDevelop and cross-platform web sites & screencasts (Tom)
• WCF RIA Services Part 8 – Testing and Debugging (Brian Noyes)
• Windows Phone 7 Apps – Getting from Concept to Customer (Mike Ormond)
• Do you know about the Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework ? (Joe Stagner)
• Top 6 Coding Standards & Guideline Documents For C#/.NET Developers (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• XNA GS 4.0 + F# 2.0 + Xbox 360 = no love (Joh)
• Navigating Property Tabs in the Project Properties (Zain Naboulsi)
• How to fix the Beta bits have expired dialog (Daniel Cazzulino)
• Finalization Uncovered (Maoni Stephens)
• Migrating to FAKE (Mauricio Scheffer)
• Second article published about VSPackage Builder (Gary Horen)
• Connecting to SQL Azure using Entity Framework (EF Team)
• The Annotated Fourth Edition is available (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

• Adding jQuery Goodness to ASP.NET Web Pages using WebMatrix (Rachel Appel)
• Finding elements using jQuery – Part 1 (Ryan Sukale)
• CSS Quick Tip: Inline Boxes with Bottom Alignment (Thierry Koblentz)
• Facebook: Delivering Read APIs for the New Messages (Dan Hsiao)
• Tailspin Spyworks Ecommerce Application and Tutorial Updated on CodePlex ! (Joe Stagner)
• MapQuest Launches International Bike Routing API on Open Data (Daniel Luxemburg)
• IE9, Vendor Prefixes, and Developers (John Hrvatin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What’s Next for Agile? (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Convincer Strategy (J.D. Meier)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Shared Fixture (Giorgio Sironi)
• Retrospectives: My first time facilitating (Mark Needham)
• Some testing lingo (John Guin)
• 13 communication and life tips that children teach us (Garr Reynolds)
• Four Decades of Software Engineering, are Changes Coming? (Jean-Jacques Dubray)
• Interview: Being an Agile Coach (Stefano Ricciardi)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Bing Visual Search for Windows Phone Apps (James Clarke)
• Extended WPF Toolkit–Updated ColorPicker control (Brian Lagunas)
• Windows Phone 7 with Expression Blend and Prism 4.0 Released! (Chris Koenig)
• Validation Application Block for Silverlight – open question (Grigori Melnik)
• Windows phones hardware reviews (Jaime Rodriguez)
• WP7 UX Introduction: Part 3 (Jesse Freeman)
• How to make sharing code between .NET and Silverlight (a little) less painful (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Currency Converter For Windows Phone 7 (Sanchal Kunnel)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Jon Skeet and Bill Wagner Disagree About C# (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Technology & Friends Episode 125: Jeff Blankenburg on Windows Phone 7 Development (David Giard)
• ARCast.TV: Simon Guest on Patterns for Moving to the Cloud (MS Podcasts)
• Rx Update: Async support, IAsyncEnumerable and more with Jeff and Wes (Charles Torre)
• Herding Code 97: Jackson Harper on Manos de Mono (Jon Galloway)
• Ping 83: SQL Pass, Kinect Hacked, Windows Phone Updates, Xbox Use (Laura Foy)
• Let’s Play TDD #48: Transitioning to Production Code (with Roy Osherove) (James Shore)
• DevCamp 2010 Keynote – Rx: Curing your asynchronous programming blues (Bart de Smet)
• The Windows Phone 7 Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP) Tech Ed Video (Rob Tiffany)

Community / Events

• Events This Week–November 16th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Silverlight Firestarter Bus – Portland edition (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• See the Future of Silverlight on December 2 (Pete Brown)
• “Unplugged” online talk with me this Friday (Scott Guthrie)
• Oredev – Post conference review (Rob Ashton)
• North Carolina is the first state to adopt Microsoft IT Academy statewide (Siegfried Behrens)
• Open Source and Community-Developed Software (Joel Bennett)

Database

• SQL Server 2011 (SQL11 / Denali) – TSQL Enhancements to the ORDER BY clause (Jacob Sebastian)
• SSIS Denali Resolve References (Knight Devin)
• De-cluttering the SSIS Toolbox (Luke Hayler)
• List all Default Values in a SQL Server Database (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQLAuthority News – Download Whitepaper – Understanding and Controlling Parallel Query Processing in SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Save 50% on 10 Essential Data-Related Books – 3 Just Released! (O’Reilly Media)
• Managing Report Expressions – A Wish List (William Vaughn)
• Get Drive Space Including Mount Points (David Levy)

SharePoint

• *** NOW AVAILABLE *** Real World SharePoint 2010 {BOOK} (Andrew Connell)
• SharePoint Fan Web Part (Nick Swan)

Miscellaneous

• MVPs for Office and SharePoint 2010: Excel and Windows Live Mail (Lonnie Webb)
• Microsoft re-launches Games for Windows Marketplace (Byron Hinson)
• Microsoft Online Services Trial Guide, Part 2. How Partners Can Add Value Using the Managed Trial Guide (Josh Topal)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 15, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Weekly Link Post 170 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Silverlight Cream for November 15, 2010 — #993 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #730 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 11/16/2010 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Dynamic Prototyping with SketchFlow in Expression Blend: Sketch Your Ideas…And Bring Them to Life! by Chris Bernard